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The Awakening - A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700 (Hardcover)
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The Awakening - A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700 (Hardcover)
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A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the
fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution
thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and
refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the
Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts,
fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire
founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the
High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of
philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman
thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas - aesthetic,
political and scientific - were disseminated across Europe by the
invention of the printing press. Equally momentous was Europe's
encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime supremacy
which conferred global reach on Europe's merchants and colonists.
Vivid in detail and informed by the latest scholarship, The
Awakening is powered not by the fate of kings or the clash of arms
but by deeper currents of thought, inquiry and discovery, which
first recover and then surpass the achievements of classical
antiquity, and lead the West to the threshold of the Age of Reason.
Charles Freeman takes the reader on an enthralling journey, and
provides us with a vital key to understanding the world we live in
today.
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